Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’
2 That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’
3 The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach .
4 And I 've not even took them out the thing .
5 So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream .
6 ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings .
7 It have fluffed it up a bit .
8 For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch .
9 I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages .
10 We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car .
11 Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom …
12 have made you up a bed in the spare room I
13 Next day I seen him down the transport club .
14 A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly .
15 He 's then moved it over a bit .
16 It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit .
17 That 'e 'd nicked them off a woman 's washing-line in Brixton .
18 I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two .
19 The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer .
20 And that , er it was kind of and the garden was small cos we had it , a quite big garden and you know things like that , I think , and the travelling and everything I think got her down a bit , I know she sat down and had a cry , yeah .
21 No its alright , we 've talked him out a minute
22 But you see what he 'd done he 'd , he 'd had it out a freezer since four o'clock since he come in
23 Why is that Care Bear down there , has she had it out the bath ?
24 I said I 'd bought it off a bloke in The Roebuck .
25 that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden .
26 And then you 've got it back the way it was .
27 Well I ai n't got it out the box yet .
28 ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel .
29 It depends how narrowed it down a bit
30 It 's tied us down a lot .
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